This new Lady Gaga thing is rather amazing - listen now!

If I was born this way I would qualify for some sort of disability benefit

We admittedly were ambivalent to Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' album, quite preferring her old and less preachy work to it.  But now something has shown up that has made us A LITTLE BIT OBSESSED with it.  It is the remix we have posted below.  It is a mix of ALL OF THE SONGS on the album and it is amazing.  It does wonderful things for each of the songs, and though we are sure some "little monsters" (ED: never use this term again.  ever.) will have us strung up by dinner time, we have no problem saying that we actually prefer the tweaked versions to the album itself.  It's 23 minutes of brilliant pop music all strung together in a genius way.  And it is glorious.


Lady Gaga - Born This Way (Jordan Howe Megamix) by Jordan Howe (jdhmixes)

Nadine Coyle goes for the gays on her new track - listen to the premiere now!

"I'll totally blow you for a top ten single"

What's a former girlband member with a massively underperforming debut single to do?  Go for the gays, of course.

And that's just what Nadine "Girls Aloud" Coyle has done with her new track 'Sweetest High.' 

It's ok.  Which is to say it would have been ok if it was 2004 and you were six drinks and a double-stacked ecstasy pill into the evening. 



It's available tonight on iTunes.  If you're into that sort of thing...

It's BRITNEY VS XTINA IN LAST NIGHTS POP-OFF - watch their stuff now

We love each other, y'all

Last night was a VERY BIG NIGHT for teen pop divas-turned adult pop divas.  Not only did we get the first performance of Xtina's new single with Adam Levine, but Britney decided to one-up her and chuck out her own slick new video.

First up we had good ol' Christina, trudging her caboose out on stage for the last few seconds of Maroon 5's new single her new track with Maroon 5, 'Moves Like Jagger' on which she is NOT AT ALL AN AFTERTHOUGHT.  This song is actually growing on us - a bit like a fungus - but it's not like Chrissy has anything to do with that.  She's literally featured for about three seconds, during which she does some vocal runs and proves, ONCE AGAIN, that she can "saaang."  Still, it's very good and will hopefully set her down the road to musical recovery. 

Shall we take a look? Yes, we shall - but first, a warning - for the first .5 seconds of this video you will see the face of Carson Daly.  We apologize.


Not one to be outdone by her former rival, soon after the announcement that 'Jagger' would be performed last night, Brit Brit tweeted her intention to debut the brand new video for 'I Wanna Go.'  We already raved about the preview, in which she wears ironic things, stands by an ironic sign, and slashes paparrazzi with a microphone.  Ironically.  It's all RATHER GOOD INDEED if you can get over her one eye trying to get off her face.  Seriously, her makeup people can't fix that?  Whatever, it's still awesome and the rest of her looks hot.  Plus, flashing kids on the street is always cool. 

So did it live up to our expectations?  Yes.  Yes it did.


ADVANTAGE: BRITNEY.

Adam Levine and Xtina team up for 'Moves Like Jagger' - listen to the premiere now!

Yeah, she looks like this now.

Adam Levine and Christina Aguilera are solid B-list performers (sorry Christina, but even Mariah drooped to a B+ after 'Glitter.' And you're not Mariah.) but their fortunes have both been looking up as of late.  After the kind of inexplicable success of talent competition/advertising revenue generator 'The Voice,' the two artistes figured they'd cash in on some of their new-found audience capital and chuck out a collaboration.

Maroon 5's last project did relatively okay, but Xtina's 'Bionic' was, in every commercial sense, an unmitigated disaster.  So it's probably a good idea for the bleached troll-doll of a pop diva to cozy up with Mr. Levine, since he's in a much better position than her to dust the crumbs off failure off her music career.

Commercially, the song is a great idea, but musically it's nothing more than decent.  It's got a cool kind of disco thing going, and we're actually digging the tune right now, but we're guessing no one will remember this even exists in a year or two...so, it's kind of the 2011 equivalent of that Ricky Martin/Christina thing 'Nobody Wants To Be Lonely.'

Yeah.  Exactly.

It's at least a step in the right direction for Xtina's musical rehab, but as much as we love Maroon 5 we're totally calling them as the Hootie and the Blowfish of the late noughties/early teens.  

Note to Christina:  next time try to do something with Nikki Minaj and Rihanna.  Trust us.

Moves Like Jagger (feat. Christina Aguilera) - Maroon 5 by paganpoet

"Adequate"

Britney looks GOOD in her RATHER AMAZING 'I Wanna Go' video - watch the preview now!

I'm coming for you, Gaga

When we first saw the preview for Brit's new video our expectations were pretty low.  If the single artwork was anything to go on, we reasoned, we were about to get some low-budget crapfest with lots of closeups of Britney's eyes or just her boob flopping around rhythmically for 4 minutes or something.  So you can imagine our surprise when the preview ended up being A LITTLE BIT SPECTACULAR.

Our initial thought upon seeing Britney's newly toned bod was "damn," and it only got better from there.  The microphone trick, the filming style, the distinct sense of "THIS IS HOW A VIDEO SHOULD BE DONE..."

We are very, very pleased, ScopiSubjects.  If Gaga thought she had won the pop diva battle she was obviously sorely mistaken.  Brit has certainly come out swinging - swinging a studded microphone, no less - and one gets the feeling it would be.....unwise... to count her out.

There are a few things in particular that make this preview amazing, and they are, in ascending order of amazingness:

1. Britney's abs
2. The marquee that advertises "Crossroads 2: Cross Harder"
3. EVERYTHING ELSE

So welcome back, everyone, to a world where Britney puts out amazing videos. 

In case you missed these bits of popaganda...Scissor Sisters, Gaga, and Kylie

Is there something on my face?

Remarkably, things happen in the world of music EVEN WHEN WE DON'T TALK ABOUT THEM, and here are a few of those things:

- Lady Gaga's new video is getting unanimously 'meh' reviews.  It's slick and well put together, but it's....a little boring.  When people point and Gaga and say "but anybody could have done that," she has a problem.  (Star Observer)

- The Scissor Sisters (amazing) are....wait for it...scoring the new Fraggle Rock movie (AMAZING) and it will be out relatively soon (ACTUALLY AMAZING).  (Rolling Stone)

- The Kylie Musical is still happening so everyone can relax and stop pretending it isn't.  (Sky Living)

New Robyn is actually old Robyn but is still VERY GOOD - watch 'Never Will Be Mine' now!

Konichiwa, bitches.

Robyn is amazing.  That Robyn is featured in a new video is also amazing.  That Robyn is featured in a new video that is a reworked version of her EPIC MASTERPIECE 'Be Mine' is even more amazing.  That the bulk of the song is made up of a thing called Rye Rye is....less amazing.  But still amazing.

'Be Mine' never did anything here in the States, though it was top 10 in Europe and the UK, but hopefully that can change with this new release.  The protege of up-and-comer-who-never-came rapper M.I.A., we're not 100% sold on Rye's output yet, but this is a giant leap in the right direction. 

The video was partly filmed at Robyn's recent Cherrytree Sessions live performance, and otherwise filmed on a street corner where Robyn and Rye Rye were hooking or something.  Anyway, it's good, and here it is:

The new Kelly Rowland sounds like the old Kelly Rowland but better - listen to the premiere of 'Lay It On Me' now!

I've got my eye on you, B.

So today the debut single from much-lauded X-Factor runner-up Cher Lloyd hit the internet, and we were all set to talk about it except it's a bit crap. So instead we're going to talk about something a lot less crap and a lot more Kelly.

Rowland, to be precise. She continues her reign of the clubs over in Europe, of course, but Stateside her handlers have insisted on taking the "urban" route. To be fair, it's a route that has worked so far, as her last single 'Motivation,' outperformed former bandmate Beyonce's 'Run The World (Girls)' by quite a margin.

Following on from her BIG AMERICAN COMEBACK, Kelly has now chucked out a tune called 'Lay It On Me,' and though it continues the urban vibe set by her last single, 'Lay' is thankfully a little more pop. It features Big Sean (yeah, we don't know either) and is considerably less crap than many of the songs currently troubling the radio dial.

Apparently there's an album coming sometime soon, and with songs like this we're starting to very much look forward to it.

Bring it, K-Ro.